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From Miranda July, the director of ME AND YOU AND EVERYONE WE KNOW, comes the story of a thirtysomething couple whose decision to adopt a cat changes their perspective on life, literally altering the course of time and testing their faith in themselves and each other. Miranda July also stars in the film alongside Hamish Linklater ("The New Adventures of Old Christine") and David Warshofsky (THERE WILL BE BLOOD) in this critically acclaimed indie darling.

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Filmmaker/performance artist Miranda July follows up her beloved first feature, Me and You and Everyone We Know, with an equally eccentric but darker work, The Future. Sophie (July) and Jason (Hamish Linklater, The New Adventures of Old Christine) have decided to adopt a stray cat, but the shelter won't release it for a month. So for a month, they decide to live life as if the world were about to end… leading to quitting their jobs, door-to-door solicitation, creative confusion, adultery, conversations with the moon, and stopping time. The fracturing of Sophie and Jason's relationship is captured by such surreal means it verges into David Lynch territory. Some scenes are literally so dark it's hard to see what's happening, contributing to an unsettling emotional ambiguity. July also plays the voice of the stray cat as it waits to be rescued; its brief monologues are strikingly plaintive, in many ways more emotionally stirring than Sophie and Jason themselves. Brilliant little sequences abound; in one scene, Sophie runs into old friends and watches their reproductive lives unfold into a matter of moments. The Future is a much more difficult movie to love than Me and You and Everyone We Know--it's more prickly, less sweet, less naive (though still hopeful) about human relationships--but it offers many rewards for anyone who will open up to July's searching imagination. --Bret Fetzer

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Anyone skilled in statistics will notice the bimodal distribution of reviews on this movie.

It is most expressly NOT a movie for people that need happy endings, or have trouble understanding symbolism. MOST of the movie does not take place in "reality." Pretty much the only "reality" exists at the beginning before Hamish stops time and at the end after he turns the tide and restarts time. Everything is a symbol for generation X/Y's lost souls.

If you can't tease apart the fact that the conversations are simply shorthand symbolism for people's secret feelings about themselves and inner thoughts during romantic interactions, then you will simply not get it.Yes, Miranda's character is paralyzed with fear, lost at sea and morally bankrupt. That's an allegory for women in my generation. Yes, Hamish's character is an unstable wimp unable to really make a place for himself in a world that doesn't seem to need him. That's an allegory for men in my generation. Get with it.

This is a stunning film. It is certainly not a comedy though there are funny moments. The story revolves around human relationships and our vulnerabilities as individuals who choose to trust and love other people. Time also plays a key role in the film; the writer asks would you rather stop time to avoid loss (yet still suffer and cause irreparable damage) or allow the world to move on in a different direction than you planned/wanted. It's nothing like her other film; the plot is much more linear and traditional.

This is an intimate, absorbing, exasperating, and ultimately rewarding film, full of unexpected moments and delicate whimsy; but it also can seem dark, eerie, and even heartbreaking. This is not a movie for everyone. It is a strongly independent film from a unique and gifted woman with vision and drive to spare. And even though I think it deserves my highest appreciation, I cannot say to everyone who may read this that I recommend it unreservedly to you. There are more "cold pricklies" in this film than "warm fuzzies". It has a resonance that may not be all that comfortable. If you plan to watch it, I recommend seeing it through the first time with a sense of maintained distance -- getting too involved has led others to dismiss it as fraudulent and manipulative, with a feeling of having been cheated. Still others react to the impressionistic, sometimes surreal style and images as pretentious claptrap. But see how you react. Then, after assessing your own feelings about it for awhile, watch it again with her commentary, and see if your opinions have altered somewhat. As for me, I am grateful that independent visionaries like Miranda July have the courage and guts to overcome the overwhelming financial odds, and somehow manage to put their vision on film, even if that vision is more moonlight dark than sunlight bright.

Miranda July's new film is a fascinating, eerie, unsettling film that does not please those viewers who like a straightforward plot line, a clearly recognizable happy ending, and an uplifting, 'moral' message. It addresses the inner insecurities that play such a major role in our life, in our relationship, and in the way we look at reality. I saw the film in a movie theater with a friend and we loved it.

So, my girlfriend had been feeling depressed, lying in bed, seasonal affective, etc., so I suggested that we watch the Miranda July film for which you are reading the review. Based on Miranda's other film, I thought this one would cheer her up. "I heard it has a cat as the film's narrator!" I pitched to her. You see, she loves cats and I knew she'd want to get out of bed and watch the movie with me if I mentioned it had a cat. I thought the film would be funny and sweet and and uplifting in a quirky, darkly comic way...big mistake. Big big big mistake. So the cat is terminally ill, and it is injured, and it has had a terrible life of loneliness, and it is in a cage the whole film. All that cat wants in the entire world is to be loved. Every time the cat appeared, and talked about how lonely it was, and how it wanted to be loved, my girlfriend started to cry. Well guess what folks? The annoying, unsympathetic hipster main characters never pick the cat up from the shelter and it is KILLED. My girlfriend practically went into hysterics, the tears pouring down her face. Sound like a good time? Are you depressed and want to get pushed over the edge? Want to see a suffering cat get betrayed and die? Then watch these miserable characters and a sad lonely cat who dies for the sins of vacuous hipsters. My girlfriend is still crying in the next room as I write this and the movie has been over for about fifteen minutes. Thanks for a terrible, depressing, lonely loveless cat killing evening. Also, the two main characters have the same hairstyle and it is distracting.

I appreciate that this film is creative and takes chances. The scenes with the cat were very clever and original, I would love to have an edited movie of the few minutes of the cat speaking to the viewer. The movie overall seemed to open plot threads that were never taken to any type of completion and that seemed thrown in: the part about time for instance ( I am being vague so as not to spoil it). Bottom line, I was happy when it ended, and I only watched all of it to hear what the cat would say next.